Recorded January 19th, 2017This episode we are ringing in the new year and giving you all a treat, by letting someone else talk. We welcome Fabian Franz, a core committer for Drupal 7  and co-creator of Ryan’s favorite thing in the whole wide world, Big Pipe. You do have to listen to us a little as we talk about Mediacurrent’s awesome blog posts, and Drupal News. Mario brings us the first Pro Project Pick of the year and we’ll finally shut up with Ryan’s Final Bell.Episode 28 Audio Download LinkUpdates:Show notes and past episodes available at http://www.mediacurrent.com/dropcast.Subscribe in iTunes or Stitcher.Feed: https://www.mediacurrent.com/taxonomy/term/639/feedMediacurrent is hiring. Go to mediacurrent.com/dropcastjobsEmail your questions to: dropcast@mediacurrent.comFriday 5: http://mediacurrent.com/friday5Most if not all of our articles come from TheWeeklyDrop. The best Drupal news and links delivered to your inbox every week, which we turn around and steal.Mediacurrent Blog Mentions:Migration with Custom Values in Drupal 8Creating and Updating Comments with Drupal’s REST Services and JavascriptFight bad intranet with killer user personasInterview of guest Fabian FranzWhat is your Twitter handle, D.O. username? Where are you from originally How did you initially get into development?Drupal: https://www.drupal.org/u/fabianxTwitter: https://twitter.com/fabianfranzWife’s Site: http://www.salsodromo.de/How did you become interested in BigPipe, caching, and Drupal performance in general?Can you give us an “explain it like I’m five” description of BigPipe?What are the biggest needs for BigPipe’s development moving forward?Query Cache (https://github.com/query-cache/query-cache)D8 Cache (https://www.drupal.org/project/d8cache)Pro Project Pick:Simplify_MenuDrupal News:Drupal 8.3.0 will be release April 5thNominations are now open for the 2017 Aaron Winborn AwardsDrupal Association 2017 Community Board Elections Begins 1 FebruaryDrupal.org's Composer Endpoints Are Out of BetaEvents:DrupalCamp NJ - Feb 3 - 4.SANDCamp - Feb 16 -18 in San Diego, CAFlorida DrupalCamp - Feb 17 - 19 in Orlando FLDrupal Mountain Camp  - Feb 16 -19 in Davos Switzerland.Northern Lights DrupalCamp - Feb 24th - 26th in Reykjavík, IcelandMIDCamp - March 30 - April 1 in ChicagoDrupalCon News: Get Ready for DrupalCon BaltimoreThe Final Bell:How to Manage Media Assets in Drupal 8Cron and Queues in Drupal 8locallingual.com